#walter farley

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The 24-Hour Celebration of this blog's 1-Year Anniversary: The Tumblr Tourney!

You’re almost up for the next round of jousting. Since you’re jousting, you, of course, need a horse. Of the following horses available to you, which one are you renting for the tournament?

Epona (The Legend of Zelda)

Horse (Centaurworld)

Donkey but in his stallion form (Shrek)

Agro (Shadow of the Colossus)

The Black Stallion

Maximus (Tangled)

Spirit (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)

Arthur Morgan’s horse (depends on the player’s favorite horse to ride)

Artax (The Neverending Story)

Belle (Anne with an E)

Voting ended onMar 18

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

Is it common knowledge that in the universe of the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley there were straight up aliens or was I the only child who read every single book and learned that?

[electronicsquid]

Janice Ohl won Sadhu by naming the horse in a Walter Farley novel

(Wallace Kirkland. 1949)

[somelonelywordmonger]

I returned to my childhood (and the age of my horse girl, although it never truly left) with the film The Black Stallion Returns. Except instead of watching it on VHS as I did growing up, I watched it through Prime Video. Perhaps tomorrow, I shall indulge in nostalgic joy once more and watch the first film, The Black Stallion. The joy I felt as the memories of little details my autistic kid brain focused on in the film resurfaced is something I cannot describe. As a lonely kid, I always wanted the companionship that Black (Shêtân) offered Alec. And now that I am older, I think the books by Walter Farley that inspired the films should be added to my wishlist of books, and eventually my shelf. I should expand this old love.

[adaptationsdaily]

The Black Stallion (1979) Dir. Caroll Ballard

[sirigreenhaven]

So I just finished reading the Black Stallion series for the first time, since the movies were childhood favorites....

Walter Farley really said "the main character and his horse in these kid books about horse racing is gonna survive one sinking ship, two airplane crashes, and the literal apocalypse. Also there were aliens this one time."

[potterandpromises]

Thinking about how Walter Farley wanted to write sci-fi but he couldn’t sell any books that weren’t about those damn ponies so he just had aliens show up on the island. King shit.

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THE BLACK STALLION

If I’m going to be in a movie, I say — bring on the horses! I grew up yearning for a horse and devoured any book about them. My favorites books were the Walter Farley’s Black Stallion series. I probably read the book so many times its cover fell apart. All through my childhood, Walter Farley wrote a steady stream of Black Stallion books  — and I read every one of them. About his colts and…

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